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Emerging signals of declining forest resilience under climate change

Nature Publishing Group · Giovanni Forzieri · last updated

Forest ecosystems depend on their capacity to withstand and recover from natural and anthropogenic perturbations (that is, their resilience). Experimental evidence of sudden increases in tree mortality is raising concerns about variation in forest resilience, yet little is known about how it is evolving in response to climate change. 

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